Watch-maker s pliers



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H. A. R. HORTON.

WATCH MAKERS PLIERS.

No. 317,648. Patented My 12, 1885.

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UNITED STATES HENRY A. E. HORTON,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF OLEBURNE, TEXAS.

WATCH-MAKERS PLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,6d8, dated May 12, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY A. R. HORTON, of Gleburne, in the county of Johnson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pliers for WVatch- Makers Use, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a combination watch-hand tool or pliers to be used by Watch-makers for removing the hands from a watch when it is to be repaired or new hands are required to be put on; also for holding new hands when they are to be filed and otherwise fitted to the watch; and the invention more especially consists in certain constructions of the jaw end portions of the pliers, whereby the utility of the implement for the purposes named is very effectually secured, substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a partly-sectional side view, upon an enlarged scale, of a watch-hand pliers embodying my invention, showing the tool closed; Fig. 2, an edge or longitudinal View of the same at right angles to Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a transverse section on the line 00 m in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of the jaw portion of the pliers when open.

A A are the two limbs of the pliers,pivoted, as at b, and of suitable shape at their handle ends for manipulation by the operator. The tool, generally, may be made of steel or other metal, and either be plain or nickel-plated, or both, and should always be polished and nicely finished. When used for removing the minute or hour hand from a watch, the jaw a of the limb A of the pliers is the lower one-that is, the one that lies next to the dial. This jaw has an outer open ended longitudinal slot, 0, through it from its face to its under side or back, which slotted portion is cased on its back by a slotted plate, d, riveted or otherwise secured to the jaw and virtually forming part of it. Said outer casing plate or portion extends some little distance in front of the main body of the jaw, and is curved inward at its outer end. The slot cin it, which is also open at its outer end and runs in the same direction as the slot 0 of the jaw, is made tapering or of diminishing width from its outer end, terminating in apoint or very contracted opening, and said plate portion (1 is of such width on each side of its slot as to form inner projecting longitudinal lips or ledges e e, which are beveled to a knife-edge on the exterior of the jaw or back of the plate, thus forming inner ribs or feathers. The enlarged width of the slot 0, which may be nearly straight in the main portion of the jaw a, gives room for the watch hands to pass when using the tool. The upper or other jaw, a, is constructed with or has secured to it on its inner face a wedge projecting piece, f, shaped to fit the slot 0 in the lower jaw. The sides of both jaws a a are constructed with projections, between which are different-sized partly-circular cross-grooves g g g and rectangular oross-grooves h, the uses of which will be hereinafter explained, as also the use of a small hole, 2', near the outer end of the jaw a, and the uses of a small slot, 76, in the outer end of the one prong of the lower jaw, a, and of a small hole, Z, in the other prong thereof.

To remove, say, the minute-hand of awatch, the plate portion d of the jaw ais entered by its slot 0 between the minute and hour hands,-

and the same pushed up until a sufficient hold has been obtained under the eye of the minute hand to remove it, the bevel edges 6 e passing beneath the eye of said hand. The two jaws a a of the pliers are then closed toward each other, which brings the upper jaw, a, down on the cannon,when the minute-hand may readily be loosened, no matter how tight it may be on its arbor, and by raising the pliers said hand is removed. The hour-hand may be taken off in the same manner.

To remove the second-hand the claw-like or slotted portion is of the one prong of the jaw a or its plate at is passed beneath said hand and the hand pried or lifted by the pliers as required. The curved construction of the outer end of the plate (2 facilitates these operations. The cross-grooves g, g, 9 and h on the opposite sides of the pliers serve to hold different kinds of watch-hands while they are being filed or fitted. Thus the larger partly-circular groove 9 may be used for holding hour-hands, both American and English, and the smaller partlycircular one, 9, on the same side of the pliers, for holding Swiss hour-hands; the rectangular ICO notch or groove h for holding minute-hands, both English and American, and the partlycircular groove 9 for holding Swiss minutehands.

The small holes '5 and Z in the jaws serve to hold second-hands of all kinds while they are being fitted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In pliers for use on the hands of watches, the jaw a, constructed or provided with an outerfplate portion, d, and having longitudinal slots 0 c in them, the outer one, 0, of whichis made tapering, as described, and has beveled overlapping inner margins, e e, in combination with the jaw a, constructed to fit the slot 0 in the jaw a, substantially as specified.

2. The longitudinally taperingly slotted plate portion d of the jaw a, having its outer end constructed to curve inward, and having 'an' open-ended slot, 70, in the outer end of one of its prongs, essentially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. The jaws a a of a pair of watch-hand 25 pliers provided with holesi Znear their outer ends, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. A watch-hand'pliers having projections on the sides or edges of its jaws, with crossgrooves of different sizes and shapes between said projections, for holding minute and hour hands of different descriptions while the same are being filed or fitted, essentially as described.

5. A combination watch-hand pliers constructed with a longitudinally-slotted and inner ribbed or feathered lower jaw having a claw-like termination for one of its prongs, a

solid upper jaw fitted to enter within the 0 lower jaw, and both jaws constructed with holes and cross grooves or notches for holding the hands when detached from the watch, substantially as specified.

. HENRY A. R. HORTON. Witnesses:

W. B. BISHOP, J. W. LEGG. 

